Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

To read and write is a paradise.

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.